, 1887-10-07
TOW N TALK.
Cosby Little paragraphs Picked UP
Throughout the City.

~ ~ h"S S@sSh 'ANJ $1,000
Now have men comprised so wide a connection,
made the world swallow their nostrums at
Will?
'Tisl that by constant and serious reflection. ad-
vertise well is the principle still.
Maximum temperature yesterday. 63o:
minimum, 390.
Barrett's circus will pitch its tents on
the old show grounds this morning.
Alderman Murray and his crew placed
a large new safe in Kent's bank yester-
day.
The street car company will soon pro-
vide accommodations for the horses to be
used upon the line.
A few OF the colored Masons are still in
town. The majority left for Colorado
points yesterday morning.
The Denver train was an hour late last
evening. The locomotive pulled fourteen
heavily laden cars from Colorado's capt.
tai.
Territorial Veterinarian Hopkins Off
ciated as one of the judges during the
johnson county races at Buffalo last
week.
Eva l.. Rugg has transferred to Chas.
f. Rugg 100 acres in section 8, township
10, range 63. The consideration named
is $500.
j. Duke Murray, advance agent for
Milton Mobiles, has completed all arrange
,,on.a Co. tbo oDnoorapoa NJ that ctor in
this city Oct. IA.
SO far the pursuit of Mccoy and his
mates reminds one of Mark Twain's
White Elephant story. The chase is
productive of clues and nothing else.
Ducks are at present a drug on the
market. Any sort of a sportsman can
bag from ten to twenty any morning
within three or four miles of the city.
The many Cheyenne friends of ex
City Engineer provinces will doubtless be
pleased to learl that he and his family
have safely reached Fort Worth, Tex.
Everyone who WINS or is able to hire a
rig drives upon the boulevard these pleas
ant evenings. The attendance at the
band concert at Fort Russell was excep-
tionally large yesterday.
A Chicago divine, Rev. j. H. Malcolm,
is at present engaged in the unenviable
task of explaining to his congregation just
who and what Satan is. Now, if he had
Mccoy word portraits would be unneces-
sary.
Seaman, the great Irish comedian OF
"Peek-a-Boo" fame, will, assisted by a
frst-class company, present his latest sue
cess, Shdne-nd-Ldt oa at the opera house
tomorrow night. Sale of seats com
mences this morning.
Chas. Snow, charged with altering a
horse brand, and Jack Walker, held for
the theft OF n saddle animal, o~verpowered
the jailor and escaped from the johnson
county jill last week. Both were recap
tured within fifteen minutes after leaving
their cells.
A horse attached to a delivery wagon
ran away on North Capitol avenue yester-
day afternoon. The load, consisting of
three trunks, was thrown to the ground
but was unchanged. The frightened steeds
halted of their accord in the city park
and were easily captured.
The Central Pacific will soon run two
trains daily from Ogden west. This
would indicate that the Union Pacific will
double the service between Omaha and
Ogden. 1t is authoritatively stated that
the latter company Is already purchasing
rolling stock for the contemplated i'm
provement.
Eyeretts says hat he did not elope with
Mccoy ct al. because he is guilty of no
crime and hence does not desire to flee
from Justice. Now that there is a proba-
bility that poor Richard Rice's body has
been found, Everetts may soon regret that
he did not strike for liberty when the
opportunity offered.
Prof. McKanlass, the colored banjo
king who appeared in this city several
weeks ago, met with a slight mishap at
Lawrence, Kan, Tuesday night. He be-
rated a lady who giggled while he was
performing a violin solo. Her husband
Jumped upon the stage and soundly
thrashed the professor.
In Its report of the recent entertainment
at Y. NJ. q. A. hall, THE LEADER mad
vertently used the name of Bessie Nc
mahon instead of Hattie Argesheimer in
mentioning the calisthenic feature of the
programme. Strange to say, each of the
other city papers committed the same
error twelve and twenty-four hours subse-
quently.
There was a regular monthly meeting
OF the capitol commission last night at
winch was present the entire board, in
Guiding Hon. M. E. Post, who has been
In New York several months. The vari-
GUS contractors were also in attendance.
work on the building is now progressing
satisfactorily.